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    BLM LUPA Renewable Energy Designations

    Metadata Updated: July 24, 2025

    From Databasin: https://drecp.databasin.org/datasets/c61b0e256e494fc5b6958d6c3999a19a/Development Focus Areas (DFAs). Designation on BLM-administered lands within which solar, wind, and geothermal renewable energy development and associated activities are allowable uses and that have been determined to be of low or lower resource conflict. The intent is to incentivize and streamline such development in these areas.Variance Process Lands (VPLs). Designation on BLM-administered lands that are available for solar, wind, and geothermal renewable energy development. Renewable energy projects on VPLs have minimal streamlining and must comply with a specific set of CMAs. Renewable energy applications in VPLs will follow the variance process described in the Western Solar Plan ROD.

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    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025

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    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025
    Publisher California Energy Commission
    Maintainer
    Identifier e54e16e1-8c58-4ca0-9262-dc24f1c4ca89
    Data First Published 2022-01-24T22:16:00.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-03-22T16:00:13.354Z
    Category Natural Resources
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250724164837
    Harvest Object Id 778113cc-2884-4d94-ad71-b33cc3367972
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f85528c73cb3bdf67c7958885534137e6f43156d2e527811824e018e780e018f
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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